Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Assorted questions Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 16:52:38 GMT References: <877@sce.carleton.ca> <628@philica.ica.philips.nl> <1990Jul16.235145.25212@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <630@philica.ica.philips.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <630@philica.ica.philips.nl> adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen) writes: > Maybe, that > somebody will port the X Window System to Minix for the SparcStation > somewhere in the future. It shouldn't be that difficult; Minix only > lacks a real ethernet driver and the socket mechanism. From the "small is beautiful" point of view of MINIX the MGR window system might be a better idea. It's a much smaller system and should be easier to port to the relatively small systems MINIX runs on. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.